EXERCISE 4.8
Analyzing Tone
Read each of the following statements and describe its tone. Which words in the statement provide clues to the tone? (Refer to Table 4.1 if necessary.)
1. Do you eat canned tuna? Then you are at least partially responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent dolphins, which are mercilessly slaughtered by fishermen in their quest for tuna.
2. The penalty for creating and launching a computer virus should include a personal apology to every person who was affected by the virus, and each apology should be typed — without errors! — on a manual typewriter.
3. Piles of solid waste threaten to ruin our environment, pointing to the urgent need for better disposal methods and strategies for lowering the rate of waste generation.
4. All poets seek to convey emotion and the complete range of human feeling, but the only poet who fully accomplished this goal was William Shakespeare.